This $430,427 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences will support a collaborative research project involving Dartmouth College, the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and SRI International. The project, titled "CEDAR: Swarm Over Poker 2023 - An Auroral System-Science Campaign Exemplar of Archiving and Sharing Heterogeneously-Derived Data Products", will explore and develop a new data infrastructure through the...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences Project Grant award for $433,534 to Dartmouth College supports a collaborative research effort to develop new data infrastructure and products for studying the auroral environment. The research team, which includes partners from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and SRI, will create combined data products from a heterogeneous, distributed dataset collected during the "Swarm Over Poker 2023" auroral...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) Project Grant award to Clemson University, totaling $201,941, supports collaborative research to better understand the electrodynamic properties of meso-scale auroral forms and improve knowledge of multi-scale ionospheric electrodynamics. The project aims to identify morphologically distinct auroral forms using advanced computer vision techniques, characterize their electrodynamic properties, and analyze their occurrence...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $237,873 Project Grant under the Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) to the Space Science Institute (SSI), a nonprofit research organization based in Boulder, Colorado. The grant will fund the development of the next generation of small, low-power, autonomous, multi-instrument adaptive, ground-based geospace observation arrays, named the Autonomous Remote Geospace Observation and Research Array (AURORA). This project seeks to fill large gaps in the...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will fund research to determine the characteristic features of meso-scale auroral forms and improve understanding of multi-scale ionospheric electrodynamics. The $228,262 award to the University of Alaska Fairbanks, with a project period from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2027, will leverage computer vision techniques to systematically analyze all-sky imagery and identify new auroral form morphologies....
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) provides $1,234,570.00 to develop the next generation of autonomous, ground-based geospace observation arrays named the Autonomous Remote Geospace Observation and Research Array (AURORA). The project aims to enable year-round observations in remote, high-latitude and polar regions by leveraging advanced technologies in solar panels, batteries, satellite communication, low-power sensors, and...
This National Science Foundation Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) Project Grant award to Clemson University provides $360,000 in funding over a 5-year period from May 1, 2024 to April 30, 2029. The grant supports observational and modeling investigations of pulsating aurora electrodynamics, a high-latitude phenomenon with implications for communication systems and energy deposition. The research aims to better understand the electric field, current, and conductivity structure of pulsating...
This $199,162 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) will support studies of interrelated geospace phenomena observed at Southern high latitudes through a coordinated and collaborative effort. The funding will be used to deploy and maintain a suite of geospace instrumentation at the U.S. Antarctic stations of South Pole, McMurdo, and Palmer. This includes ground-based magnetometers, ELF and VLF receivers, imaging and broadband riometers,...
This Project Grant award, totaling $196,652, was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) federal grant program. The award supports a collaborative research effort to study the near-Earth (geospace) environment and its interactions with the solar wind at U.S. Antarctic research stations located at South Pole, McMurdo, and Palmer. The project will deploy and maintain a suite of geospace instrumentation, including magnetometers, receivers, riometers,...
This National Science Foundation Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) Project Grant award totaling $753,858 supports a collaborative research effort to study the near-Earth (geospace) environment and its interactions with the solar wind. The project will deploy and maintain a suite of geospace instrumentation, including magnetometers, receivers, and optical systems, at the U.S. Antarctic research stations of South Pole, McMurdo, and Palmer. The collected data will enable studies of the magnetospheric...